Crossword Puzzle Number 4253 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
5. The act of passing from one state or place to the next.
12. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
15. An opening that permits escape or release.
16. Rod-shaped motile bacteria that attack plants.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. Genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap.
20. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis.
22. A bottle with a stopper.
23. The narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips.
24. Speak to someone.
25. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
27. Having a back or backing, usually of a specified type.
32. The residue that remains when something is burned.
33. Someone who escorts and protects a prominent person.
36. Gull-like jaeger of northern seas.
38. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
41. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
42. Draw in by breathing.
43. Being one more than one.
44. Not having rhyme.
47. (informal) Roused to anger.
48. A linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em.
49. The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food.
52. The region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean.
55. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
56. A city in northern India.
59. (printing) A short line at the end of the main strokes of a character.
61. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
65. A high place.
67. Dyed with henna.
69. Old World tropical herbs.
72. A master's degree in business.
73. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
74. Island in West Indies.
76. A decree that prohibits something.
77. The habitation of wild animals.
78. A long slender cigar.
79. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
2. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
3. Gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas.
4. Used in an attack.
5. A thermionic tube having five electrodes.
6. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere.
7. Naturally having skin of a dark color.
8. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
9. A word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition.
10. A castrated tomcat.
11. King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959).
12. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
13. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
14. Having the slant of a bevel.
19. Belonging to some prior time.
21. Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance.
26. A person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination.
28. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
29. A person who designs and writes and tests computer programs.
30. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
31. English monk and scholar (672-735).
34. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
35. A pass between mountain peaks.
37. God of love and erotic desire.
39. A foreboding about what is about to happen.
40. A genus of Mustelidae.
45. Any plant of the genus Monstera.
46. A compound of sulphur and some other element that is more electropositive.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
53. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
54. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
57. A kind of literary or artistic work.
58. (of e.g. celestial bodies) Above the horizon.
60. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
62. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
66. A protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers.
68. A quantity of no importance.
70. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
71. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
75. Not out.

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